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City Lit is a leading provider of adult education in London and all over the UK. It's the perfect place to learn something new, gain new skills, and build your confidence. From mastering new languages and honing creative skills to advancing your career with professional development courses. Whatever your passion or goal, our diverse curriculum has the perfect course to inspire your next step.

 

 

 

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  1. Keyboard harmony and performance workshop
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Mon 20 Apr 2026 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Ricardo Gosalbo
    A practical workshop integrating keyboard harmony with piano performance skills. Taught in-person on a grand piano, this workshop is aimed at classical pianists with a music theory standard of grade 6+ and good sheet music reading skills. We shall deepen our understanding of musical works by studying the harmonic constructs that underpin them, tackle the technical challenges they present, and explore how harmonic analysis can inform our interpretative choices. NB: Break week 4 & 25 May 2026.
    Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £295.00 Concession £258.00
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  2. Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £174.00
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  3. Piano: advanced workshop
    Course start date:  Wed 22 Apr 2026 (and 7 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Petros Moschos

    City Lit's most advanced, regular classes are for advanced pianists, whether  performers or specialist teachers. This course is designed to continue to develop your technique, broaden your repertoire and increase your understanding of piano playing to the highest level.

    Entry to this course is subject to audition with the Head of piano. If you are interested in joining this class, please apply using the pink button; someone will be in touch with you to arrange an audition. 

    Break week 27th May 2026.
    Full fee £379.00 Senior fee £379.00 Concession £265.00
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  4. Piano: repertoire workshop
    Course start date:  Wed 22 Apr 2026 (and 8 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Shelagh Sutherland

    If you have a minimum playing standard of grade 8, come and explore the wealth of piano repertoire, concentrating on style and period. Broaden your interpretive skills and gain experience in performance practice.

    Please note that entry to this course is subject to audition with the Head of Piano. If you would like to apply, please click the pink button; someone from the music department will be in touch to arrange an audition.

    Break week 27th May 2026.
    Full fee £379.00 Senior fee £379.00 Concession £265.00
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  5. Full fee £959.00 Senior fee £767.00 Concession £623.00
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  6. Piano: intermediate repertoire workshop
    Course start date:  Fri 24 Apr 2026 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Gary Preston
    If you play piano at around grade 5-6 standard, join one of these workshops to develop your playing by studying a wide range of piano repertoire, with focus on technique, textural awareness, practice and performance skills.
    Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £295.00 Concession £258.00
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  7. Full fee £629.00 Senior fee £503.00 Concession £440.00
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  8. English entry 3 for deaf people - part 3
    Course start date:  Mon 13 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    This course will help you get become confident in your everyday communication including reading and writing. We will focus on topics that interest you and use these to help you improve the key elements of reading and writing as well as communication skills to enable you to express your thoughts and feelings including in difficult situations. You will learn to how write whole sentences and paragraphs, use adjectives effectively, organise your writing, make notes and complete drafts, spell important common words, use punctuation correctly and develop reading and writing strategies most suited to you. And you will learn some digital skills including reading and finding information from websites.



    This course is free for learners who have not achieved a GCSE grade C (4) and higher in English. For more information Click here

    Full fee £0.00
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  9. Looking at photography: Wedding photography
    Course start date:  Wed 15 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sara Epstein
    This course will prepare you to compete in the challenging world of client-facing photography in the areas of wedding photography. You’ll be taught by knowledgeable and highly experienced professional practitioners who bring all their skills and experience to help launch or evolve your professional practice.
    Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00
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  10. Music history bookclub: Viva Violetta and Verdi
    Course start date:  Fri 17 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Edward Breen
    The music history book club meets towards the end of each term to discuss novels and biographies with musical themes and references relevant to the music history programme.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  11. Music theory: diploma topics 3
    Course start date:  Mon 20 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Simon Rigby
    Consolidate your knowledge of music theory topics equivalent in standard to the first year of an undergraduate degree. The topics in this module are selected from the Trinity Associate (AMusTCL) syllabus. Prepare for this exam, or just develop your knowledge. This term: Exam technique and preparation. Break weeks: 04 and 25 May 2026.
    Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £269.00 Concession £188.00
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  12. Keyboard harmony 5C
    Course start date:  Mon 20 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Ricardo Gosalbo
    A practical workshop combining keyboard harmony and pianistic technique for classical pianists with a starting standard of grade 6. This advanced 6-module course is taught at the keyboard and takes a historical approach to harmony and technique. We discuss separate eras and their corresponding harmonic developments in each self-contained module, along with main points of evolution in pianistic technique. NB: no classes on bank holiday Mondays (4 & 25 May 2026).
    Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00
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  13. Music in the Weimar republic
    Course start date:  Tue 21 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Katy Homden
    Discover the colourful landscape of music in Germany between the wars. Break week: 26 May 26.
    Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00
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  14. Speak Shakespeare monologues and scenes: comedies
    Course start date:  Wed 7 May 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Vernon Thompson

    Do you enjoy speaking Shakespeare or would you like to enjoy it? Whether you are preparing a Shakespearean monologue for audition or simply have an interest in their structure, rhythm and poetry, this course enables you to work on and speak monologues from the Comedies with confidence as well as rehearse duologues/ scene work from As You Like It and All's Well That Ends Well specifically. The course is held at the college, and includes a trip to the Box Office Studio in Shoreditch, site of the original Theatre where the Lord Chamberlain's Men performed.

     

     

    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £104.00
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  15. ITEC Level 3 Diploma in Reflexology: fast-track
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 27 Apr 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Kean Street Wellbeing Centre

    Tutors:  Janet Lee
    Gain a recognised qualification in reflexology which will enable you to practise professionally. This is a FASTRACK, low cost course taught by experienced industry professionals. You must have completed the ‘ITEC massage diploma’ or equivalent and preferably an introductory reflexology course.







    (equivalent being an Ofqual recognised qualifaction e.g. City and Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Massage - Active IQ Level 3 Diploma in Massage - VTCT Level 3 Diploma in Massage). There is one session per week on this course. It is every Sunday for 13 weeks.



    The Free Courses for Jobs initiative is for Londoners aged 24 or over at the start of the course who are: on a low-income; or on certain benefits; or do not have a full level 3 qualification. For more information Click here





    The course fee is £1029.00 payable at the time of your enrolment. If you are unable to pay the course fees, you can choose to apply for an Advanced Learner Loan from Student Finance England (SFE) to help cover the course fee, repayable after the course ends. You can find more information about the Advanced Learner Loan www.citylit.ac.uk/advanced-learner-loans



    For more information, please call Health & Wellbeing on 020 8142 4577.
    Full fee £1,029.00 Senior fee £1,029.00 Concession £1,029.00
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